The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-10-08
ELECTRICITY AS A MOTOR.
Various Experiments which Have
Hesuited In success.

New York Sur.l
The interest aroused by the trial the
other day Of the Cleveland Electric
Street railroad, the Gr5t put into opera
ton for city passenger travel in America,
is natural, and the degree of success
claimed for it is not surprising. Nearly
o year ago electric cars were moved
through the crowded thoroughfarcs Of
Paris by the Power Storage company Of
that city at the rate of nine miles an
hour on a level, and Of more than FIVE
on an ascent. A distance of thirty
miles was accomplished by moving the
car from one route to another in the
French capital, often across several
yards of trackless ground, and without
accident or difficulty OF any kind. The
locomotion was effected b. Faure-Sellon-
Volckmar accumulators, fixed under
the seats, and connected with a Siemens
machine beneath the floor. Last No.
vember we had the less successful pre-
urinary trials of the Daft motor on a
Saratoga railroad.
The electric railway in Vienna dates
back TO the electric exhibition there,
when a mile in three minutes was rogu-
larry made by the train. AT Berlin the
high-level railway was at the same time
operated by electricity. The small cleo
trio railway at Portrush derived interest
from seeking its energy in q neighbor-
ing waterfall; while the invention of
Dosprez for Transporting electrical force
to great distances has been applied TO a
waterfall near Grenoblc, Which has
worked, to the extent of scven-horse
power, a printing press, a sand mill and
other machinery.
An electrical omnibus also he's been
tried with success in Paris, during the
busiest hours of the day, and the heavy
vehicle was handled and turned with ia
cility. In some of the coal mines Of
Saxony electricity has for many months
been employed, not only 70 draw trains
Of coal, but also TO work a ventilating
fan. Even a thermo-elcctric stove has
been invented, as have also electric
lights that can be used on railway cars,
in spite of the vibrations and frequent
shocks TO which trains are exposed.
On the water electricity a. a motor
has made no less rapid progress than on
land. Last summer an electric boat was
plying on the Danube canal, taking
thirty or more passengers six miles IN
hour against the strong current and
eighteen miles an hour with the stream.
Two years ago u launch propelled by
electricity was shown on the Thames,
and tho following year q boat Of
that character, forty feet long, attained
a spced of eight miles per hour on the
measured mile-this boat being the one,
VIC believe, already spoken Of as being
used on the Danube. Its trips were
accomplished, of course, without smoke
or heat or smell of oil, and also without
noise Of engines or vibration. AS for
the application Of electricity to subnla-
rine t~orpcdocs, it Is nos the subject Of
much study, attended with some suc-
cess. Electric small arms have already
been invented, and one such weapon
was operated not org ago ~ Col. rus
bcry 1t London, before an assembly CT
army officers and others, by means OF d
small accumulation secrctei under his
waistcoat. The gun was the invention
Of Piepcr, Of Liege, VINO has fired moro
than 100 rounds with j. in two minutes.
We may yet see electricity revolution
iSing the manufacture o. small arms.